Mouth-guard for bottles.



Patented Mar. 6; I900.

No. 644,89l.

C. H. BUGART. MOUTH GUARD FOR BOTTLES.

(Application filed June 30, 189 9.)

(No Model.)

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MOUTH GUARD FOR BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart Of Letters Patent No. 644,891, dated March 6, 1900. Application filed June 30,1899. Serial No. 722,422. (No model.)

To on whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. BOGAR'I, of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Mouth- Guard for Bottles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

One object of my invention is to provide a means whereby the mouths of bottles may be protected from fracture as the result of careless handling and also to utilize such protective appliance as a means for identifying,even in the dark, bottles belonging to a certain proprietor or firm.

Another object of the invention is to attain the result above set forth in a simple and economic manner and without in the least interfcring with the proper action of the cover or sealing device employed.

The invention consists in the novelconstruction and combination of the several parts, as Willbe hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a vertical section through the upper portion of a milk-bottle and likewise a vertical section through the improved device applied to the bottle; and Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the guard removed from the mouth of the bottle, the guard, however, being bent in the same position it would occupy if applied to a bottle.

The bottle A is an ordinary milk-bottle, and the said bottle is provided with the usual cap or cover B, operated through the medium of the ordinary lever-bail O.

The improvement consists in a band 10, and said band is preferably made of rubber or other yielding material and may be solid, as illustrated, or the said band may be bent upon itself to form vertical parallel members, if desired. A wire ring 11 is located in the upper portion of the said band 10. This wire ring is of a diameter less than the outer diameter of the upper or bearing edge of the mouth of the bottle and of greater diameter than the interior diameter 12 of the mouth, so that when the band 10 is placed upon the upper portion of the neck of a bottle the said band will be immediately over the central portion of the upper edge of the mouth, as shown at 13 in Fig. 1, or will occupy an equivalent position, while the body of the band 10 is sprung over the outer surface of the upper portion of the neck of the bottle, and the said band is of such width that it will extend beyond the usual exterior shoulder 14, formed at the upper portion of the neck of a milk-bottle, as illustrated in Fig. 1; and, furthermore, the protective band 10 is secured to the neck of the bottle by means of wiring 15, although other means may be employed, if desired. Thus it will be observed that the band 10 protects the outer surface of the upper portion of the neck of the bottle and likewise the outer edge of its mouth, effectually preventing these parts from becoming chipped, and at the same time the cap or cover B, usually employed fora milk-bottle, may rest in the ordinary way upon the mouth of the bottle, as shown in Fig. 1, the cap or cover B fitting snugly with in the inner upper margin of the said band 10.

The band 10 serves a dual purpose, since it not only protects the mouth of the bottle from breakage, but acts also as a means of. identification, as a milkman in the dark by touching a bottle provided with the improved band may identify it from other or ordinary bottles. A band of the character set forth may also act somewhat in the nature of a trademark, indicating to purchasers that they really have received milk from a particular firm or individual.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination with the bottle, of a yielding band surrounding the neck of the bottle and also engaging the top edge thereof, and a rigid ring embedded in said band at the top edge thereof and of a diameter intermediate between the inner and outer diameters of the bottles mouth.

2. A mouth-guard for bottles and the like, comprising a yielding band forming a tube open at the top and at the bottom,said band be ing cylindrical in its lower portion and contracted at its upper edge, and a rigid ring embedded in said band at the upper edge thereof.

CHARLES H. BOGART.

Witnesses:

LOUIS GARZ, EDWARD ANNAN BURGER. 

